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Episode 125: 31st Century Fox

Mothzilla destroys the crew’s uniforms on a trip to Tokyo, prompting the Professor to supply the crew with new clothing. Everybody gets on board the ship and travels to the garment district to buy some new uniforms. Several parodies of pop culture are found, but Bender settles on a fox-hunting outfit. The Professor chooses some uniforms that are discounted, as the louse who ordered it never picked it up. It winds up being the new uniforms the Professor ordered a year ago and never picked up. While everyone else dons these new duds, Bender opts for the aforementioned fox-hunting get-up.

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Bender and Leela get into a scuffle regarding the ethics of killing animals for sport. Bender strongly approves of the notion, while Leela sets out to protest such a thing while Bender goes to the country club to participate. Bender learns the ropes—including what a fox is—while Leela protests with a homemade sign. Trampled by the horses, Leela fails to stop the fox hunt. Bender falls into numerous traps to deceive the fox along the way.

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The dogs close in on the fox as it has been sighted; ripping it into several pieces … only to reveal that it was a robot all along. Bender’s stance on fox hunting immediately goes 180 degrees, citing that it is inhumane to kill robot animals for sport. Meanwhile, Leela stops caring about the inhumanity. Bender threatens to man in charge and starts B.A.R.F., Bender’s Animal Robot Front, an organization that attempts to free robot animals and offer cage-free environments wherever necessary. A montage is shown of Bender liberating robot chickens, belittling a butcher, and giving carnival goers who shoot at robot ducks the business.

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Bender and his crew crash the weekly fox hunt and threaten the Hunt Master with court papers. Judge Whitey destroys their injunction, as he is a member of the fox hunting club. The Planet Express crew devises a plan to sneak onto the grounds and free the fox, which goes awry when Bender thinks it will be a good idea to hide in the cage, replacing the fox with himself. The Fox Master decides that Bender is a much better, more elaborate hunt than a mere fox. Bender effectively wastes his thirty minute head start by going over the pros and cons of a fork in the road, going over scenarios for each. He’s granted more time, given the boredom of the now-robot hunters.

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Meanwhile at Planet Express, the rescued fox is causing horrific destruction, forcing the crew to rethink that this was a good idea. When the fox eats their new uniforms, the crew decides to kill the fox, which gets away once Farnsworth blows open the side of the HQ. The fox hitches a ride on a commuter train to go back to his native habitat. Meanwhile, Bender is carving a wooden sandwich and chops off his finger. He begins doing interpretive dance to signal for help, but winds up getting his leg caught in a bear trap. Suddenly, the fox appears and gnaws Bender’s leg off, allowing him to get away.

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The Hunt Master finds Bender’s leg as the Planet Express crew arrives on the scene. The Hunt Master slips away while Leela lectures him in pursuit of Bender. Bender traps him using his wires to trip him into the anti-gravity snare. Bender aims the gun at the Hunt Master but refuses to pull the trigger. The Hunt Master snatches the rifle from him and aims to kill before the fox jumps in and attacks him, revealing that the Hunt Master was a robot all along before killing him.